King Lars Porsena (also spelled Porsenna) was the Etruscan monarch of Clusium (modern Chusi, Tuscany) during the transitional period in which Rome changed its...
Emperor Constantine V was the son of Emperor Leo III of Constantinople (r. 717-741), a ruler who brought much-needed stability to the Byzantine Empire...
In this narrated review video, an in-depth comparison is made between Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, juxtaposed against the nearly three-millennia-old poetry of Homer. The...
Confucius (c. 551-479 BCE)
"High office filled by men of narrow views, ritual performed without reverence, the forms of mourning observed without grief - these...
John Hyrcanus, a member of the Maccabee/Hasmonean Dynasty, ruled Jerusalem from 135 to 104 BCE. Around the same time as John Hyrcanus’ ascendance, the...
